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Best Australian Films of 2024

Andrew F Peirce Dec 31, 2024 42 min read

So, what of the best Australian films of 2024 then? The below list talks a look at thirty-one of the best Australian films of 2024. Collectively, those thirty-one films highlight the future state of…

Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Sally Aitken on Every Little Thing

Andrew F Peirce Oct 24, 2024 1 min read

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Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Regular readers of The Curb will know that I have a particula…

Sundance Review – Sally Aitken’s Every Little Thing is a Tender Ode to Life and Death Through the Prism of Hummingbird Rescue

Andrew F Peirce Feb 12, 2024 9 min read

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You can tell a lot about a director by the way they frame tragedy in their work. As with all discussions about death and dying, it’s all about striking the right tone for the right audience. A directo…

Sally Aitken Talks About Her Adventures in Wiggle World with Hot Potato in This Interview

Connor Dalton Nov 30, 2023 23 min read

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I cannot overstate how significant The Wiggles are to me. As a child of the late '90s, I grew up with Greg Page, Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, and Anthony Field. They were my first exposure to both mus…

AUSgust: Celebrate The Fourth Australian Film Month

Andrew F Peirce Jul 31, 2021 12 min read

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Welcome to the fourth anniversary of AUSgust: the month dedicated to celebrating all things Australian cinema! We here at The Curb dedicate the month of August to highlighting a wide array of Aussie…

The Best Australian Films of the Decade - 2010-2019

Andrew F Peirce Aug 26, 2019 26 min read

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With a few months still left to go in 2019, and with those months, a wealth of Australian films yet to come (The Nightingale, Ride Like a Girl, Little Monsters, The Faceless Man, Nekromantik, The Nake…

Best Australian Films of 2017

Andrew F Peirce Jan 9, 2018 19 min read

Articles Constance on the Edge Damien Power David Stratton Dominic Pearce Garth Davis Greg McLean Hotel Coolgardie It's Not Just Me Jasper Jones Jeffrey Walker Jennene Riggs Jennifer Peedom Jonathan Messer Jungle Killing Ground Kitty Green Lion Mat de Koning Meal Tickets Michael Gosden Mike Brook Mountain Pete Gleeson Rachel Perkins Sally Aitken Secrets at Sunrise Something Quite Peculiar Steve Kilbey Three Summers Top Knot Detective Tristan Barr Watch the Sunset Zach's Ceremony

2017, just like 2016 before it, was another stellar year for Australian cinema with a bunch of truly superb films. The quality was stretched across theatrical and streaming, with some of my top 20 fil…